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...that view in his trenchant dissection of the second half of the 20th. Judt takes Europe from its hour of deepest need after the war to today's sometimes complacent prosperity in telling detail. At the signing of the treaty that launched nato in 1949, he notices, the band played "I Got Plenty of Nothing" - roughly what the new alliance offered in terms of boots on the ground. At the time, Soviet forces in Europe outnumbered the Western Allies by a ratio of 12 to 1. Luckily, Judt argues, "for American policymakers, Europe's vulnerability was a problem...
...this movie, your character associates liking the band Coldplay with being gay. Any backlash? A lot of people had a very strong reaction to the Coldplay thing. I met Fran Drescher a few weeks ago, and I was a little nervous to see her 'cause in another scene I kind of insulted her voice. But she thought it was hilarious, as did her parents. Meanwhile, I am a little bit nervous about running into Gwyneth Paltrow--or Apple...
...wrap up its week-long salute to Global AIDS day, the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) hosted a screening of the film, “And the Band Played On,” and a talk by one of the first experts to discover the AIDS viral agent. Don Francis, whose research at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the early 1980s led to the identification of the AIDS virus, spoke of the history of AIDS and described the tensions at the CDC when gay men were dying of an unknown epidemic. He lamented in particular...
...writing, and late the next year, he started to work on his first book. Not surprisingly, “Storming the Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation as a haven for refugees. “After 9/11...
...With such a remarkable band of people here, we thought that there was no better way to spread our brand and our mission than to set up in the Square for the holidays,” he said...